Bishop Absalon topples the god Svantevit at Arkona (Illustration)

Illustration

by Laurits Tuxen
published on 23 August 2014

Painting by Laurits Tuxen showing a Christian Bishop displacing an image of the pagan Slavic deities during the Christianisation process of the Slavic culture. Most the Slavic mythology and lore was lost during this time.

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Original image by Laurits Tuxen. Uploaded by Cristian Violatti, published on 23 August 2014 under the following license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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